One Liner: Doo-wop punk goofiness
Wikipedia Genre: Punk rock, queercore
Home: San Francisco
Poster Position: Third Quarter - Line 15
Day: ???
Weekend One Only.
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Thoughts: Remember Shannon and the Clams? This reminds me of that sort of thing - kinda 50's girl-group-doo-wop but then also some punk rock flourishes. There are some songs in here that are legit punk rock and are kind of annoying, but the majority of this feels kind of fun.
Seth Bogart is Hunx. He was previously in a band called Gravy Train!!!! (and I like that name), but the funny thing to me here is that he seems to take the backseat to his backing girls on almost every song. He started the band in 2008, they broke up in 2011, reunited for a minute in 2013, and then came back for real in 2019. The only album with this current lineup of folks is 2025's Walk Out On This World. The top track from there is "Alone in Hollywood on Acid." 147k streams.
I feel like it would actually be really terrible to be alone in a big city while high on acid. Maybe cool people who do acid all the time will disagree, but that scares me. But their top streamer overall is "Lover's Lane" from the debut album - 2.7 million streams.
Total girl group vibes on that one with the "woooooo" intro. Even sounds like it was written about something from the 50's. Who would still go to Lover's Lane now? Feels like a good way to get cut up into small pieces or sold into human trafficking.
I dunno, man. Definitely more fun than some of the pop garbage I have been listening to so far, but also kind of one note? We'll see how the schedule shakes out.
